By Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is inspired by "The Robber Bridegroom," a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom...
By Michael Crichton
It's been six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing...
By Umberto Eco,
William Weaver (translator)
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his...
By F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Amor Towles (Introduction)
Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American...
By Richard Dawkins
The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition—with a new Introduction by the AuthorInheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson...
By Virginia Woolf
An alternative cover edition exists here. In her most exuberant, most fanciful novel, Woolf has created a character liberated from the restraints of...
By Dodie Smith
One of the 20th Century's most beloved novels is still winning hearts! I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her...
By Mark Twain,
Everett H. Emerson (Afterword)
This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around the lives of two boys...
By Boris Pasternak,
Max Hayward (Translator), Manya Harari (Translator), John Bayley (Introduction)
This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987....
By Neil Gaiman
In the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere illusion... and anything is possible. In this, Gaiman's first book of short stories, his...